An Alig's Armchair

How should we Muslims react to the Tarun Tejpal affair just unfolding in the news? Of course one should not judge anything in haste but o...

Yours truly has not been talking about Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Prime Ministerial campaign. That is a mistake. To get the ...

There are many reviews of Edward Gibbon's magnum opus the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on the net, though not as many as one wi...

Here is an article of Bernard Lewis's confusion about Islam and Muslims. Clearly Bernard Lewis, in his 97th year an always, has been...

Edward Gibbon got some fifty seven years on this planet and used them to do what would certainly classify his as one of the most effective ...

Who is most the jealous one in this universe? Not your wife. Not your little daughter. The following story was told by Pir Zulfiqar A...

West, lead by the US, has been forcing democracy on willing or unwilling countries around the world. The concept is made kosher by fiet and...

Here is a collection of Edward Gibbon quotes: (1) Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. (2) ...

Stephan Covey's Seven Habits is a hugely popular concept. Here are these in less than a nutshell: (1) Be proactive (2) Begin wit...

Interest and Its Role in Economy and Life     Jamaal Zarabozo    An article explains why the Muslims abide by...

The most powerful country on the planet, the US, will be taken seriously in any matter. Allah (SWT) says in the Noble Qur'an that man...

The following piece appeared in the New Indian Express on the said date. Our remarks are in black against the original article in blu...

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are the three giants of western philosophy. Whole of the western world view sort of sits on these three nam...

To decide how Aligarh Movement can be effective we have to first ascertain why we are ineffective. Ineffective we are but we might differ...

I want to fume at west. Many will say that I do that often. I agree. The point is that no one else is taking up the task with yours trul...

According to the Telegraph : Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a wooded area n...

What do you do when you run out of ideas? Well, congratulate yourself. You are ready to pay attention to purpose of life. And the purpo...

There is a couplet by Dr Nawaz Deobandi: Uska Kitna Bojh Utara, Dar Par Aakar Sa-il Ne Aur Sakhi Ye Soch Raha Hai, Sa-il Par Ahsan Kiya ...

There were the post Babri Masjid demolition riots of 1992 that spilled over to the early 2013. Then there was Gujrat 2002. Now we have ...

From YouTube : "Rumi and Hafez have been the guiding light, Rumi especially, of American poetry for the last five or ten years. Bu...